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Vyasa Puja Offerings for Srila Prabhupada 2009

Dear Devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

This year, as always, we request you to submit your homages to Srila
Prabhupada for his Vyasa Puja book by April 15. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF
E-MAIL ADDRESS. The standards for submitting an offering are as follows:

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Absolutely no offerings will be accepted after April 15, 2009.

Offerings must be in English.

Please restrict the length to a maximum of 3,000 words or 15k of ASCII text.

Please omit all diacritics on words that can be found in the VedaBase.
It’s easier for us to put them in. If you quote a verse from outside the
VedaBase or compose original Sanskrit, please include diacritics.

Do not “recycle” an offering -- no offerings from previous years will be
accepted.

The Vyasa-puja book is meant for glorifying Srila Prabhupada, not for
venting grievances. The BBT reserves the right to reject an offering it
deems inappropriate or to ask for a rewrite.

When writing an offering on behalf of a temple or other unit, please try
to write in such a way that the other devotees in your unit can also
identify with the offering.

Who may write an offering?

1) Governing Body Commissioners

2) Sannyasis

3) Authorized representatives of ISKCON temples, preaching centers,
farms, gurukulas, BBT offices, and “others,” such as BTG magazine and
ISCOWP (this is not a complete list). If there is some doubt, we will
request you to send written authorization from your GBC representative.

4) No multiple offerings. For example, a temple should not enlist all
its bhaktas to write offerings under the temple heading. Joint
authorship (2-4 devotees) of a single offering is fine.

5) Please make sure you tell us where the offering originates. For
example: New Vamsi-vata (the Madagascar farm community), NOT just New
Vamsi-vata. If we don’t know where the offering comes from, we will not
print it.

6) Always leave a double space between paragraphs. If you want some
special formatting, submit your offering in printed form or send it as
an attached file in Microsoft Word or RTF format (see 1. below).

Ways to submit an offering, in order of preference:

1) By uploading offering to Dravida dasa at dravida108@gmail.com.

2) By sending offering on a CD-R or other medium to Vyasa-puja Book, PO
Box 34074, Los Angeles, CA 90034. Please stick to files with .doc,
.docx, .rtf, or .txt extensions, and, please label the CD. Also, include
an e-mail address on the label just in case we can’t read it.

3) By faxing offering to the BBT in LA: (310) 837-1056.

4) By mailing a typed or carefully handwritten offering to Vyasa-puja
Book, PO Box 34074, Los Angeles, CA 90034. (If you plan to send a
printout, why not send it on a disk or upload it and save us all that
keying in?)

Offerings may be submitted any time from now until April 15, 2009.
Receipt of offering by e-mail will be confirmed on e-mail. For other
offerings you can confirm receipt by calling direct to (310) 837-5283.
Don’t expect a return call or fax; keep trying till you get a live person.

The BBT is not responsible for illegible or lost offerings.